linux-ext4 - [PATCH] e2fsck: allow checking on mounted root filesystem

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Date:	Wed, 30 May 2012 12:39:42 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com>
To:	tytso@....edu, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com>
Subject: [PATCH] e2fsck: allow checking on mounted root filesystem

Commit 732e26b98e5c79a4298dbe341f43b54b354bb241 added checks to
prevent e2fsck from being run in filesystem-modifying mode against
a mounted or otherwise busy device, due to several bug reports of
users doing this even with the verbose warnings in check_mount().

However, it also prevented e2fsck from checking a mounted root
filesystem, which will prevent the node from booting.  Once again
allow e2fsck to run against the mounted root filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com>
---
 e2fsck/unix.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/e2fsck/unix.c b/e2fsck/unix.c
index 6161e46..1c1bae8 100644
--- a/e2fsck/unix.c
+++ b/e2fsck/unix.c
@@ -1221,8 +1221,11 @@ restart:
 			    &old_bitmaps);
 	if (!old_bitmaps)
 		flags |= EXT2_FLAG_64BITS;
-	if ((ctx->options & E2F_OPT_READONLY) == 0)
-		flags |= EXT2_FLAG_RW | EXT2_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE;
+	if ((ctx->options & E2F_OPT_READONLY) == 0) {
+		flags |= EXT2_FLAG_RW;
+		if (!(ctx->mount_flags & EXT2_MF_ISROOT))
+			flags |= EXT2_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE;
+	}
 
 	retval = try_open_fs(ctx, flags, io_ptr, &fs);
 
-- 
1.7.3.4

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